65.2 🫐 Are MP's putting their best foot(print) forward? 👣 @lucasgeese.bsky.social and @chantal-st.bsky.social use rare data to understand the impact carbon footprint of voters has on an MPs #Decarbonisation focus asking whether politician's prioritise #NetZero, or electoral gains🌍️

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Conspiracy beliefs and populist radical right attitudes: A comparative European analysis' by @andres-bernstein.bsky.social & @johnkenny.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/4SV4qwu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

We are proud to see our CAST paper on "Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature" among the top 10 cited papers for the Wiley WIREs Climate Change journal in 2024. 👏 Read the paper: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26

Excited to have registered for the 2026 @comptext.bsky.social annual conference in Bham. Workshops and conference programme look amazing. Hope to meet many new and familiar faces.

📚 End-of-week highlight: the Festschrift for @thomas-saalfeld.bsky.social, my PhD supervisor, arrived. Delighted to have contributed to this wonderful volume. It brings back many happy Bamberg memories. Huge thanks to @jmfernandes86.bsky.social and @javiermcanto.bsky.social, and congrats to Thomas 🎉

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

High emissions and low admission? 🏭️ @lucasgeese.bsky.social and @chantal-st.bsky.social use rare data to understand what impact the carbon footprint of voters has on the decarbonisation focus of MPS, asking whether politician's prioritize #NetZero, or short-term electoral gains 🌍️

New research from CAST's Dr Lucas Geese (@lucasgeese.bsky.social) & Dr Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett (@chantal-st.bsky.social) shows that UK MPs give less attention to decarbonisation in more carbon-intensive constituencies, especially Conservatives and marginal seats. 📣 Read the open access paper 👇

📌New in EJPR (OA): We ask whether MPs prioritise decarbonisation most where consumption emissions are highest. Answer (UK): No — MPs give less attention to decarbonisation in more carbon-intensive constituencies, especially Conservatives + marginal seats (speech analysis + elite interviews).

Really delighted to see this article with @lucasgeese.bsky.social finally out. Using speech analysis + elite interviews, we show that UK MPs give less attention to decarbonisation when they represent more carbon-intensive constituencies — especially among Conservative MPs and in marginal seats.

New article! Europeans’ climate consciousness: Increased yet more politicised by John Kenny @_johnkenny & Stephen D. Fisher. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

New paper out with @stevefisher.bsky.social at @environmentalpol.bsky.social. We use @ess-survey.bsky.social from 2016-17 and 2020-22 to show how climate worry rose across Europe, and in Western Europe especially so for left individuals and voters of left parties. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Knowledge Gap on Climate Urgency ⏰ A new study reveals a critical disconnect: UK MPs & public significantly overestimate how much time we have to act on #ClimateChange. Only a small fraction knew global emissions must peak by 2025 to to realistically limit temp rise to 1.5˚C ➡️ buff.ly/7TJcypB

A new CAST study has found that UK MPs and the public in the UK, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions. 📣 Read the paper in @commsearth.nature.com, co-authored by Dr John Kenny (@johnkenny.bsky.social) & Dr Lucas Geese (@lucasgeese.bsky.social) 👇

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

📢 This is a threat we won’t accept: abolishing the Climate Change Act (CCA) would harm our natural world, damage a thriving net zero economy, reverse significant progress, and be out of step with public and political opinion. We’ve written an open letter to Badenoch to express our profound concern.

UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is evident among the public in Britain, Canada, Chile, and Germany.

A new UEA study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming.  Read more 👉 bit.ly/3KAs1y2 #UKParliament #MPs #ClimateChange @ukri.org @climateuea.bsky.social

Bit of an awkward coincidence that our paper comes out on the day Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap the UK Climate Change Act, but perhaps provides also a bit of an explanation: Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Really pleased that some research from my PhD has been published today in npj Climate Action ⬇️

Check out the Guest Editors' Note from our April Issue, written by @johnkenny.bsky.social , @sofiabrei.bsky.social , and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. It is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...

New journal article 📢 A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events This article reviews the rapidly emerging literature on citizens’ assemblies and assesses their significance for understanding climate policy and governance. buff.ly/KCSUFgl 🤝

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies, said to improve legitimacy and efficacy of #ClimatePolicy 🤝 Key insights: 🟢 There are disagreements on roles + purposes 🟢 How evidence is presented can provide opps for value-based debate + challenging status quo Read in full: buff.ly/KCSUFgl

🔓 : Advocates of national citizens' #climate assemblies (NCCAs) maintain that they improve the quality & legitimacy of policymaking. Lorenzoni et al. (@lucasgeese.bsky.social @chantal-st.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social) find substantial variation in character, impact & perceived legitimacy⬇️

New publication in Climate Policy—open access! We reviewed national citizens’ climate assemblies and found substantial variation in process, impact, and perceived legitimacy. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew Jordan & @chantal-st.bsky.social

New OA article now in @govandopp.bsky.social issue! Tougher immigration stances by centre-right govts boost political distrust—esp. among pro-immigration citizens—without hurting far-right support. Democratic costs? Quite possibly. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #polsci #FarRight

New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with Michael Lewis-Beck. We show that political economy models - based on inflation rate, government/prime minister approval, and the number of terms in office - performed well in forecasting CON vote share ahead of the 2024 GE doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

What can we learn from the 2024 General Election for the UK climate politics of the future? Very happy to see @johnkenny.bsky.social and my report published in collaboration with @green-alliance.org.uk and @cast-centre.bsky.social. See 👇 for the details.

Great to see CAST 2024 polling be the focus of @green-alliance.org.uk's latest report on public opinion on climate policy during the 2024 general election. 🗳️ The report was written by CAST's @johnkenny.bsky.social & @lucasgeese.bsky.social and examines climate policy support. Read the report 👇

In this report with @lucasgeese.bsky.social, we present findings from polling we carried out just before last year's UK general election in which we examined support for climate policies among the British public. @cast-centre.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social

🇦🇹's new government seeks to "temporarily" halt family reunifications, citing the "burden" on the education system. Most experts agree this violates human rights & EU law and is unlikely to hold. It's also problematic insofar as it legitimises a core programmatic point of the far-right FPÖ. 1/

When politicians have strongly held views which conflict however with those of their voters, parties or independent experts , should they stay true to themselves or give in to the views of those stakeholders? John Kenny and I have surveyed British and German citizens and politicians on that. 👇👇👇

Together with @lucasgeese.bsky.social , we show (doi.org/10.1086/734680open) that there are differences in preferences for politicians being true to themselves among publics and MPs in Germany and GB. MPs may be more constrained in their ability to be true to themselves under certain conditions 9/12

The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12

Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇 www.rnd.de/politik/bund...

‼️ Hiring‼️ -- 10 days to deadline! Two postdoctoral positions in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: February 28 Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!

New article from John Kenny , Lucas Geese , Andrew Jordan and Irene Lorenzoni reviews the usage of climate change questions in public opinion surveys & provides an overview of the types of concepts that can be elicited from these. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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